Where: Argentina (43.7° S, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.7° S, 81.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Costatumulus amosi brachiopod zone, Mojon de Hierro Formation (Tepuel Group), Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• 4th fossiliferous horizon. Costatumulus amosi zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: C. R. Gonzalez. 2006. Lower Permian bivalves from central Patagonia, Argentina. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80(2):130-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64405: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Costatumulus amosi Taboada 1998 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Sanguinolites sp. M'Coy 1844 clam
Sueroa andreisi clam | |
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam | |
"Atomodesminae indet." = Atomodesmatinae
"Atomodesminae indet." = Atomodesmatinae Waterhouse 1976 clam | |
? Streblochondria sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Euchondria sabattiniae scallop | |
? Parallelodon quichaurensis n. sp.
? Parallelodon quichaurensis n. sp. clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Peruvispira sueroi Sabattini and Noirat 1969 snail |